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Welcome to my fun little site. My name is Sheila, you may know me as Sassy Lady. I am a Chicago transplant to the Birmingham, Alabama area. I like to say I am southern by the grace of God! My blog was started to share with family and friends my love for scrapbooking and of course special moments with those around me. Being an avid scrapper I also dabble in card making as I love to remember people and their special times with a card. Click Here To Read More!

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Unless otherwise stated within the post, this is my original work or design. You are free to use any of my designs as INSPIRATION for your own personal use. My work is not for use for publication, contest, message board entries or for profit. If my designs inspire you in any way please give credit where credit is due. If you post information about my files to any message board or mail group, please direct users to this blog rather than attaching the file itself. Leave me a comment and by all means post a link to my blog. Thank you!

December 30, 2014

Today begins a series of blog posts that I am creating to show how to use the machine! This first session is learning how to turn on, load blade housing, loading mat, and using the pattern feature. The machine comes with a large variety of images.

December 26, 2014

Isn't this card adorable? I have a friend that is fighting breast cancer and is in her final two months of chemo and then starts radiation. I try to send her a card every 2 weeks and this is one of them. I used some Tim Holtz scrap paper for the background and inside of the card. And I used my Explore for the wording and the fish. I played with the colors to make sure I had pink lips on the fish and then adjusted the words to match the fish. I flattened both as I was in a hurry and I wanted those colors to match. The Explore is the perfect tool for any crafter!

This is the inside of the card. I used The Stamps Of Life, special edition breast cancer stamp and it worked perfect!

This is the close up of the card and as you can see it is adorable! Thank you for joining me today and for your sweet-sweet words of encouragement. Your comments continue to inspire me.
Have a blessed day.

December 25, 2014

Luke 2:1 In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2(This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3And everyone went to his own town to register.4So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. 5He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. 6While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, 7and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.The Shepherds and the Angels8And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. 9An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. 10But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. 11Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. 12This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." 13Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 14"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."15When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, "Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about." 16So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in the manger. 17When they had seen him, they spread the word concerning what had been told them about this child, 18and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them. 19But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart. 20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told.

December 24, 2014

I had to share a photo of our tree. My grandchildren Justin-12 and Sydney-11 and Gavin - 5 decorated it for me! Didn't they do good? I added a couple of the glitterornaments and they did the rest! They love helping.

December 19, 2014

Merry Christmas to you all. Wasn't it just Thanksgiving? I have been so busy trying to get everything done, while working full-time but, I'm sure most of us are in the same boat, right?. I'm sorry I really don't have a blow by blow description of my project. I am trying to think outside the box when it comes to wrapping certain things, so I thought making these little bags would be cute for gift cards. Of course I always give credit from where I get the ideas, and these cute bags are from Angie at Chic n' Scratch. The paper alone cracks me up, it's from Stampin' Up.

I punched a hole through the top and added curly ribbon. Hopefully, after the holidays, I will get to be more productive.

Sheila, thank you for having me and I'm sorry it wasn't a fabulous post :)

December 16, 2014

Stopping by to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. Thanks Sheila, for letting me come visit.

Today,s creation is another book art sample. The last time I posted, was my Christmas tree, using the same technique. However, this time - you turn the book upside down for several of the pages - so that you get wings :-) A great tutorial for this, can be found here at Five Go Blogging.

I decided to make a bottom for the angel using cork pot stands - so I first coated the cork in Gesso, just one coat would be enough, but I gave it two :-)

Then I gave it a coat of silver acrylic paint. I am so pleased with how this turned out!

You can see the angel there in the background - looking a little headless LOL!

Anyways, after spraying her with some Perfect Pearls - Perfect Pearl is the colour I used, I also added a little more sparkle with some very fine glitter glue.

Her head is just a Christmas bauble, I kept the silver hanger attached to it, as I thought it made the perfect collar.

I couldn't resist adding some silver ribbon to her head and base.

Of course, as she is a Snow Angel I had to add some lovely silver snowflakes.

I finished off the base of the angel with some wired star garland, after all she is up in the stars and clouds there :-)

I was tempted to add a face to the bauble, but thought that may spoil it. Less is more, as they say.

I apologise for the overload of photo's I was trying to share the sparkle :-) Hope you are able to see it.

December 15, 2014

Hello again.Thank
you, Sheila, for having me here once again.This month marks two years of being able to share some projects with you
and I am revisiting the first post I did here, which was removing card fronts
with your Gypsy.Well, we now have the Explore
and Design Space, and it couldn’t be easier to not only remove (slice) card fronts, but to create die cuts without
owning the die or a die cutting machine.Something like this:

Here’s the how-to using, let’s say, a 4 x 5.25 piece of
paper or card stock and a heart image.Insert an image of a rectangle that size on the virtual mat.Now insert the heart imageSize
the heart image, bring it on top of your paper layer rectangle to where you
want it to cut out, hold down the shift key to highlight both the heart and
your paper layer and click slice over on the dialogue box.You will see everything turn one color.Now just slide the heartaway, delete it or hide it, hit GO, and you will see
that your heart image will be cut out from your paper layer.Cool,
right?

My favorite way to use the slice feature is to cut a separate layer of the
front of a card in designer or specialty paper to adhere to the plain card
stock card.This requires some extra
steps, but it’s easy. I’ll use a side
fold card here; just adjust for a top folding card. First, bring in the card you want to cut and
size it in edit (unless it’s a square card, unlock the lock before you put in
your height and width).Next, bring in a
rectangle image (or square) and size that in the edit box to the height and half the width of your finished card
(you just need the front).Click on your
card, hide the score line and click detach
in the layers dialogue box (this is important).Now, slide the rectangle over the card front (bring it to the front
through “arrange”) and it should cover the right half of the card.Hold down your shift key and click both the
rectangle and your card, then click slice in the dialogue box.Now slide the new card front over (and you
can delete what’s left on your mat).Done!I resized my new layer a bit so I would have a
little margin of the card base around it.Just FYI, I cut all the card
bases first, then I cut the new layer.

I was very impressed on how well the Explore cut the heavy glitter
card stock on this top fold A2 card.

I cutthe last one in
white so I could color in the house and trees and cover them with lots of Glossy Accents – don’t you just love that stuff?!! The sentiment is also embossed, but it doesn't show. 5 x 7

I feel very blessed to be able to join all of you once a
month. I can't thank Sheila enough for her generosity and inspiration. I want to wish you the merriest of Christmases and the happiest and
healthiest New Year! God bless.

December 13, 2014

Hello, it's been a while since I posted anything. Just like you I have been busy getting ready for Christmas. I made all my Christmas card and even the tags that went on the children's gifts.
In the mean time my scraps have been stacking up. I have had 4 card parties, Halloween cards, a tag swap and the Christmas cards and tags. A little over 4 inches of scrap paper! And I didn't use scraps on hardly any of that!!! I know shame on me.

See how easy this was. The only thing is it was time consuming. I just turned on the TV and watched HGTV while I was trimming and sorting papers.

This is a picture of the small scraps and I am able to just finger through it to see if have anything I need. This size is great for punches and dies as there are some really small pieces in here.

The top two boxes are for large scraps and I have them placed right in front of me. All I have to do is reach up and use what I need. I am going to concentrate on using these scraps for a while by going to the scraps first to use for my cards.

Now this is what I used for my two cards that I made. I did the little circles and squares and chose two flowers. See the one on the right, that was the original color of the flower. I changed the colors to match the flowers in the base color of the card. Then I did print and cut and went about putting my card together.

I just love the way they turned out, and will be using them. I can see where this is really going to work our well. The Explore really make it possible with changing the color. I love the print and cut as it allows me to use a finished size that I normally would have never attempted cutting because the layers would have been too small. Now I just flatten. LOVE IT!
I hope you enjoyed today's post and that it really helps you in dealing with your scraps. I would have love file folders but I just don't have the space for it and this WORKS! Thank your for your sweet-sweet words of encouragement. Your comments continue to inspire me.
Have a blessed day.

December 12, 2014

Today I'm sharing a few of the Christmas cards that I have made for this year. These are not the mass produced ones that I stressed about making (I'll share those later) . Most of these were actually made at a crop I went to back in July.

This is one of my favorites. I used the Memory Box Clairmont Ornaments die and Teresa Collins Checking it Twice Christmas paper pad.

Inside

I made this with images from the Silhouette Store. I used the Glitzy Glitter paper pad from DCVW.

Stampin Up Ornament Keepsakes stamp set, dies and ink.

Here's the inside of this one. The tree is from Stampin Up Lovely as a Tree stamp set